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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Healing arts: pregnancy and childbirth."
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description: "(1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires the board to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a person who meets specified qualifications. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to attend cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth and to provide prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, including interconception care, family planning care, and immediate care for the newborn, as specified. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to practice with a physician and surgeon under mutually agreed-upon policies and protocols, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services or to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20232024"
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identifier: "SB 667"
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citation: "California SB 667 (20232024)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Healing arts", "pregnancy and childbirth"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Dodd"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 31
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2023-02-16"
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last_action: "2023-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d14dcca-48b3-47ad-854c-baa0e1685026"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667"
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source_hash: "c20688a1087b6873eb11f9ce998339e91bb485c7dbf67c9cd5d1972b0fff6472"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 667 (20232024) — Healing arts: pregnancy and childbirth.
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(1) Existing law, the Nursing Practice Act, establishes the Board of Registered Nursing within the Department of Consumer Affairs for the licensure and regulation of the practice of nursing. A violation of the act is a crime. Existing law requires the board to issue a certificate to practice nurse-midwifery to a person who meets specified qualifications. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to attend cases of low-risk pregnancy and childbirth and to provide prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care, including interconception care, family planning care, and immediate care for the newborn, as specified. Existing law authorizes a certified nurse-midwife to practice with a physician and surgeon under mutually agreed-upon policies and protocols, as specified, to provide a patient with care outside of that scope of services or to provide intrapartum care to a patient who has had a prior cesarean section or surgery that interrupts the myometrium.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66799INT)
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2. **04/11/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66798AMD)
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3. **04/19/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66797AMD)
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4. **05/24/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66796AMD)
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5. **09/07/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66795AMD)
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6. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66793CHP)
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7. **SB667** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667)
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8. **09/15/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB667&version=20230SB66794ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **18–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **12–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- Unfinished Business SB667 Dodd et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
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- SB 667 Dodd Senate Third Reading By Schiavo — **79–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Dodd — primary (person)
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- Grayson — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 19.
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- **2023-03-01** Referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-06** Set for hearing April 17.
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- **2023-04-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B., P. & E. D. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 747.) (April 17). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-04-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2023-04-21** Set for hearing May 1.
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- **2023-05-01** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-05-24** Ordered to second reading.
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- **2023-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1403.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2023-06-15** Referred to Com. on B. & P. `referral-committee`
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- **2023-06-27** Coauthors revised.
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- **2023-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2023-07-12** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-07-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2023-07-13** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bryan.
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- **2023-07-13** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2023-09-07** Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3010.)
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- **2023-09-07** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-07** Ordered to third reading.
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- **2023-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3251.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2023-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
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- **2023-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2742.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2023-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
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- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 497, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d14dcca-48b3-47ad-854c-baa0e1685026`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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